She wrote, “The police need to just start mowing them down with machine guns, purge them,” on her personal Facebook page.

“Very racist,” said one man, who didn’t want to be identified. “I was highly offended.”

This man saw the woman’s post online, and he looked into it further. “It shouldn’t be tolerated when you’re a professional,” said the man. “A hospital is a place where you’re supposed to have compassion upon people of all races.”

That controversial post on Facebook was never truly private. Nothing on Facebook really is. Within hours, it had been shared multiple times, and it wasn’t long before Memorial Hermann found out about it too. They took swift action.

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